Buffalo Wing Bones

Squishy

OK... On Wednesday evening, my son ate some Buffalo wings and left the bones in a bowl on his desk when he went to take a shower. The dog ate them! He is a pretty big dog, about 70 pounds. The wings were fairly small ones and there were about 6 bones. All were the upper part of the wing with the single bone (not the lower part that has two thinner bones).

I have been feeding him bread with canned dog food instead of his hard food to help move things through his system. He is eating well and has no signs of discomfort. His behavior and energy level are unchanged. No distension of his stomach and he has pooped 4 times since Wednesday night.

There is no blood in his poop and I have checked it, but have not found any bones in it. If he shows any signs of discomfort or anything else out of the ordinary, I will bring him to the Vet immediately.

Is it possible that the bones dissolved in his system? Seems that they should have worked their way through between Wednesday evening and now. How long does it take things to move through a dog's system?

Thanks!
-Mike-

MySoulmateEmmy

There is a possibility that your dog had the stomach to withstand him eating the bones, but just continue to keep an eye out for another week in case. My dog ate candy wrappers on a Sunday once and almost a week later she puked up some wrappers (she pooped out the rest beforehand during the week) I think that when she vomitted she was getting the last of it out, but I took her to the vet in case cus it typically isn't normal if the dog starts vomitting or having issues almost a week after eating something. He most likely will be okay from the sound of it.

~MSE

Gone2Dogs

The problem with cooked chicken bones is that they get chewed in a hurry (especially when stolen goods!) and the splintering ends perforate part of the digestive tract or get 'stuck' in the mouth or throat. While I am not going to diminish the worry that the dog could perforate I will say that many many dogs eat cooked, splinter potential bones without problems. I would keep an eye on him but would not feed anything special or complicate his system with anything but his regular food. Bones don't dissolve per se...they are digested and at that size dog for the bones you aren't gonna see much coming out.

I will say too that growing up every dog we owned ate bones....cooked, raw, chicken, turkey, pork, beef......anything. That, mill dust (yes, the powder leftovers from the local grain mill) , fresh milk and eggs was the soup that all the farm dogs ate.(It was often what we slopped the pigs with too)
My father's dogs always knew "take it to the kitchen.." when they were given chicken bones at the table, so the greasy food wouldn't get on the dining room carpet. Again, never a problem with them. How they survived....and yet all lived to teens just fine and died of old age- not cancers, no allergies. Different world.

I don't feed cooked poultry bones now....except to the parrots and then only supervised since they like to toss things to the dogs.

Brittany

Kelsey got a hold of some chicken bones about 6 months ago. I called the vet in a panic. They told me to keep an eye on her and if she vomited to withhold food and water for 24 hours. She got sick about 1 hour after she ate them. I didn't give her anything to eat for 24 hours but I did give her water.

I would just keep a close eye on her. It sounds like she is doing fine. If you notice anything unusual I would call your vet.

Squishy

Still doing OK. We had a great time in the woods yesterday. Lincoln was running around with no signs of any discomfort. He didn't poop while we were out there, which is unusual, and did not poop last night before bedtime, so I was a little worried. He made up for it this morning on our walk, though! Still no bones, but everything is still moving. Again, he was running this morning with no signs of discomfort at all.

Hopefully everything is working its way through and we dodged the bullet on this one.

-Mike-

Brittany

Glad he is doing okay!

tankstar

Im sure his stomache acids have eaten away the bones. You do relze dogs were made to eat bones. and disolve them just fine.

Im sure if by now no issues have come up, then your dog is just find.

Probably took him longer to poop due to all the extra calcium in the bones. making pooping harder to do.

Brittany

Raw bones are usually okay; it's cooked bones that tend to be problematic

tankstar

I know raw bones are fine (as my dog is fed RAW). I do know that cooked bones are not good, but if nothing seems wrong now, the dog should be alright.

Mistersquiggles

So true, especially the hollow bones (birds).